“But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.” YearsCompanyFieldsOilAccessAgendasOil Companies Author:Daniel Yergin
“We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as it produces, and around the profligate wastefulness of the wars and campaigns required to defend such consumption. In recent years we have defined our national interest largely in terms of the oil fields and pipelines we need to procure fuel.” WorldNeedsYearsWarNationsTermInterestEconomyFieldsProduceOilCampaignsDefinedFuelConsumptionConsumerismOrganizeConsumingOverconsumptionPipelineNational InterestsWastefulnessOil Field Book:Small Wonder Source: Small Wonder
“You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea.” MadeStoriesEnergyCompanyBoysSeaFieldsFoolSingingUnionsWorkersDuesOilAlternativesListen To MeOil Field Author:Woody Guthrie
“Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.” ConsciousnessHonestFieldsVariousOilContactFighterCharacteristicsPrizeMechanismDominantBullyCombiningWorkmenConanAmalgamationOil FieldGunmen Author:Robert E. Howard
“GEJ is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself. And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour. He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now. He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from.” GivingYearsPresidentFieldsAreasCorruptionOilColourDeltaNiger Author:Nuhu Ribadu
“The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.” PeopleWorldGivingTogetherHouseWhiteViewsMediaFieldsCongressOilWorking TogetherWhite HouseOil Field Author:Gore Vidal
“As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.” ProblemCoursesFieldsEssentialsEssenceOilAriseEssential Oils Author:Otto Wallach
“We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.” IfsWorldLongStatesUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyFieldsSpringIsraelOilTreatedTiesKnotsArab WorldArab SpringOil Field Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“Some people have criticized the United States and the United States military for guarding oil fields and not guarding the Iraqi National Museum which had priceless antiquities in it. They say that this shows a fundamental lack of respect for Iraqi history. I want to remind those people of this: The oldest relics in the museum, 5,000 or 6,000 years old. That oil is 65 million years old. You had to guard that. ... Those antiquities will only last another 5,000 or 6,000 years. When we burn that oil, those fumes will linger long after.” PeopleWantYearsLongStatesShowsLastsUnitedMillionsUnited StatesMilitaryFieldsFundamentalsOilMuseumsPricelessAntiquityOld YouRelicsGuardingUnited States MilitaryLack Of RespectOil Field Author:Jon Stewart
“All of Iraq's oil fields are under U.S. control which is ironic considering all the gas stations here are run by Middle Easterners.” RunningMiddleFieldsIraqOilGasStationsIronicConsideringGas StationsOil Field Author:Jay Leno
“The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.” ThinkingHas BeensMadeDifferentAmericaMovingNightOpportunityStageFieldsBuildingColorDevelopmentIndustryPhotographyLaborTradeMajorityAddFortuneInternationalOilInventionShipsDevelopingBranchesChemicalsEnteringBankingOne NightElectricalAircraftColossalOil IndustryColor PhotographyForeign Trade Author:B. C. Forbes
“We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throw-away paper products. We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil and pesticides onto the fields until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind. We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage, the seas with oil - all this in a kind of intoxication with our power for devastation at an order of magnitude beyond all reckoning.” KindOrderTurnsBreakAirSeaFieldsTearsWindProductsMountainPaperRiversEnvironmentalWesternBlowOilForestsGrassSoilChemicalsValleysToxicPollutionFloodAcidDrainsMagnitudeIntoxicationReckoningDevastationPesticidesSewageToxic Chemicals Author:Thomas Berry
“Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.” I CanStrongCan DoCuttingFieldsFingersGuitarOilSuitsGuitar PlayingOil Field Author:Trace Adkins
“In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells.” WellsSaidMankindFieldsWeaponsMassDestructionIraqOilAdministrationSaddamHusseinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionPretextTake ControlOil Field Author:Evo Morales
“Oil is essential for a modern, industrial society. It's unique, first of all, because it's the primary source, at 40 percent, of the world's entire supply of energy, and it's irreplaceable in the transportation field; it provides 98 percent of world transportation energy.” WorldFirstsEnergyModernFieldsSourceEssentialsUniquePercentOilPrimariesTransportationIrreplaceablePrimary Source Author:Michael Klare
“We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.” MenWorldChildrenMadeImportantSelfStarsSexNaturalInterestingLandMiddleFieldsMinesSoldierPopsOilEastDisasterCapitalistMiddle EastStarvationIdioticPop StarsNatural DisasterSelf IndulgentOil FieldChild Soldier Author:Peter Menzel
“We all say data is the next white oil. [Owning the oil field is not as important as owning the refinery because what will make the big money is in refining the oil. Same goes with data, and making sure you extract the real value out of the data.]” ImportantRealBigsValuesNextWhiteFieldsOilDataRefiningReal ValueRefineryOil Field Author:Maurice Levy
“There's a huge misconception that it's all about the oil, and the truth is there's actually not much oil left in Abyei. The misperception arose because when the peace agreement was signed in 2005, Abyei accounted for a quarter of Sudan's oil production. Since then, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague defined major oil fields to lie outside Abyei. They're in the north now, not even up for grabs, and they account for one percent of the oil in Sudan. The idea that it's "oil-rich Abyei" is out of date.” IdeasLyingLeftRichFieldsHugeTruth IsMajorsPercentAccountsCourtProductionsOilDefinedPermanentAgreementQuartersMisconceptionSudanMisperceptionArbitrationOil ProductionOil Field Author:Rebecca Hamilton